Actions from awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)Movable Type Pro 4.382015-02-08T19:10:48Zhttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=feed&_type=actions&blog_id=0&id=170Posted DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2015 - Call for Speakers! to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)tag:blogs.perl.org,2015:/users/awwaiid_brock_wilcox//423.66962015-02-08T19:10:48Z2015-02-08T19:12:11ZAttention Speakers! You are invited to submit talks for the 2015 DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop, which will be held on Saturday April 11 2015, in Silver Spring, MD (same venue as last year). As in previous years, by default talks are...awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)http://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=423&id=170
Attention Speakers! You are invited to submit talks for the 2015 DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop, which will be held on Saturday April 11 2015, in Silver Spring, MD (same venue as last year).

As in previous years, by default talks are 20-25 minutes, which we've found is a sweet spot for most topics. We get a great variety -- enough to get a dose of newness and not overwhelm. We also welcome proposals for more tutorial-style talks of around 50 minutes. We'll take the talks and build out a two-track schedule.

Speakers of all levels are welcome! This regional meetup is great for getting your first taste of giving a community talk, sharing projects or topics that you have experience with, or even doing a first run for a talk you'll be presenting at a larger conference such as YAPC::NA 2015 in Salt Lake City! All Perl-related topics are welcome -- from beginner to advanced, from technical to social.

No need to submit talks for the Sunday April 12 hackathon -- we'll have more info on that code and learning festival in future updates! And of course -- all are welcome to register for the conference; $25 for early-registration prior to March 1. Free registration for students and the unemployed.

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Posted DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2014 - Call For Speakers to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)tag:blogs.perl.org,2014:/users/awwaiid_brock_wilcox//423.57082014-02-24T01:37:09Z2014-02-24T01:41:31Z(As posted on dcbpw.org) Attention Speakers! You are invited to submit talks for the 2014 DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop, which will be held on Saturday May 3, 2014, in Silver Spring, MD. As in previous years, by default talks are 20-25...awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)http://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=423&id=170
(As posted on dcbpw.org)

Attention Speakers! You are invited to submit talks for the 2014 DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop, which will be held on Saturday May 3, 2014, in Silver Spring, MD.

As in previous years, by default talks are 20-25 minutes, which we've found is a sweet spot for most topics. We get a great variety -- enough to get a dose of newness and not overwhelm. We also welcome proposals for more tutorial-style talks of around 50 minutes. We'll take the talks and build out a two-track schedule.

Speakers of all levels are welcome! This regional meetup is great for getting your first taste of giving a community talk, sharing projects or topics that you have experience with, or even doing a first run for a talk you'll be presenting at a larger conference such as YAPC::NA 2014 in Orlando! All Perl-related topics are welcome -- from beginner to advanced, from technical to social.

No need to submit formal talks for the Sunday May 4 hackathon -- we'll have more info on that code and learning festival in future updates! And of course -- all are welcome to register for the conference; $25 for early-registration prior to April 1. Free registration for students and the unemployed.

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Commented on perl live coding in vividsnowtag:blogs.perl.org,2013:/users/egor//29.4647#9340632013-05-17T13:29:58Zawwaiid (Brock Wilcox)
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Posted DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2013 -- Next Week! to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)tag:blogs.perl.org,2013:/users/awwaiid_brock_wilcox//423.45622013-04-13T15:40:08Z2013-04-13T18:12:20ZThe 2nd Annual DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop is almost upon us! In case you haven't heard about it, we'll be having the Workshop in Baltimore this Saturday April 20, and have extra trainings on Sunday April 21. We have room for...awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)http://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=423&id=170
The 2nd Annual DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop is almost upon us! In case you haven't heard about it, we'll be having the Workshop in Baltimore this Saturday April 20, and have extra trainings on Sunday April 21.

We have room for more attendees -- even day-of registration is ok, in case you wake up Saturday morning and think to yourself "hey! I could be hanging out with awesome perl nerds right now! WHAT AM I THINKING?! Also where did I leave my hat?"

Talks

We have a great schedule of talks this year. There will be two talks at a time -- one targeting general perl developer interests, and the other focused on training/tutorial material. Talk topics include Code Coverage, Unicode, Elastic Search, and even some Scala. [Note: We actually have a small gap in my schedule for tutorials -- if there is something you want to give a 50-minute tutorial on let me know! We have some fallbacks that I'll get in place soon otherwise].

Hackathon

On Sunday we have a room, electricity, wifi, and like-minded people interested in all sorts of projects. You don't have to attend the workshop to attend project-time -- just add your interests to the Hackathon Wiki Page.

Infinity Interactive Training

Infinity Interactive is providing some additional trainings (separate from the main conference) on Sunday, April 21. In the morning is the ever popular Intro to Moose, brought to you by some of the core creators and maintainers. In the afternoon is Web Development 101, which will you bring you up to date on the latest and greatest Best Practices in web development. These are offered for the low low price of $25 each, and you don't have to attend the Saturday workshop.

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Commented on A perl of your own in Matt S Trout (mst)tag:blogs.perl.org,2013:/users/matt_s_trout_mst//684.4372#3674222013-02-24T20:23:14Zawwaiid (Brock Wilcox)
Hmm. I'll have to look to see if I can use that to improve my 'everywhere' module. It is a pretty similar concept, except that 'everywhere' is designed to be used in your top-level wrapper script on a per-application basis.]]>
Commented on Web Scraping with Perl & PhantomJS in Rob Hammondtag:blogs.perl.org,2013:/users/robhammond//1726.4254#3598022013-02-19T03:13:50Zawwaiid (Brock Wilcox)
Sounds totally cool, I'll check it out.

You might also look into WWW::HtmlUnit, which is perl bindings for the java library. I've been using that at work for a long time now and like it quite a bit.

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Posted DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop 2013 - Presenters Wanted! to awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)tag:blogs.perl.org,2013:/users/awwaiid_brock_wilcox//423.42632013-02-07T01:32:59Z2013-02-07T01:40:10ZGreetings! On April 20, 2013 we'll be having another DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop! Like last year, this will be a 1-day, 2-track conference celebrating all things Perl! The venue is very close to the train station in Baltimore, so it should...awwaiid (Brock Wilcox)http://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=view&blog_id=423&id=170
Greetings!

On April 20, 2013 we'll be having another DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop! Like last year, this will be a 1-day, 2-track conference celebrating all things Perl! The venue is very close to the train station in Baltimore, so it should be pretty easy to get to.

Now is your chance to submit a talk -- we're looking for either something you think is fun or interesting or useful for our main track, and tutorials for our second track. If you're looking to get some experience giving a tech talk this is a great way to do it... and for the tutorials we have some existing talks that you can build off of (or use verbatim).

You are of course invited to sign up as an attendee as well :) . And if you have any contacts who might want to be a sponsor (good advertising, helps a good cause) feel free to have them email sponsors@dcbpw.org for more info.

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Commented on ORMs and Their Alternatives in for do while nexttag:blogs.perl.org,2011:/users/rebecca//966.2207#1731692012-07-08T16:03:25Zawwaiid (Brock Wilcox)
I don't think I understand - What do the stored procedures give you beyond what you would get from just having your MyProject::DB::Person run the INSERT/UPDATE statements directly?]]>
Commented on Lacuna Expanse Goes Open Source in JT Smithtag:blogs.perl.org,2012:/users/jt_smith//242.3483#1719422012-07-05T16:45:07Zawwaiid (Brock Wilcox)
I linked this to my coworkers for some good Moose and DBIx::Class reading. Thanks!

--Brock

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Commented on WWW::UsePerl::Server in acmetag:blogs.perl.org,2012:/users/acme//20.3229#1512842012-05-10T19:09:17Zawwaiid (Brock Wilcox)
Fancy! Thanks! :)]]>
Commented on NoiseGen: Generate Sound With Perl. Blips and Beeps. in JT Smithtag:blogs.perl.org,2012:/users/jt_smith//242.3199#1492512012-05-05T22:54:04Zawwaiid (Brock Wilcox)
THIS TALK WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD. Or something.]]>
Commented on Ruby like code blocks in Perl in Forward Evertag:blogs.perl.org,2011:/users/forward_ever//905.2411#854522011-11-09T03:23:10Zawwaiid (Brock Wilcox)
You could do both $_ and the named param :)]]>
Commented on Beginning with an end in Maddinguetag:blogs.perl.org,2011:/users/maddingue//738.2384#807332011-11-02T20:12:19Zawwaiid (Brock Wilcox)
That's pretty cool even if it is too fast :)]]>
Commented on Work progress on WWW::Mechanize::NodeJs in Max Maischeintag:blogs.perl.org,2011:/users/max_maischein//227.2247#545662011-10-05T12:55:44Zawwaiid (Brock Wilcox)
WWW::HtmlUnit is certainly more heavyweight than firefox -- but not more heavyweight than firefox + a VM to run it on! :) (maybe headless X isn't so bad)

None the less, I look forward to a v8 based server side (headless) HtmlUnit equivalent!

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Commented on Work progress on WWW::Mechanize::NodeJs in Max Maischeintag:blogs.perl.org,2011:/users/max_maischein//227.2247#534402011-10-04T02:59:11Zawwaiid (Brock Wilcox)
Also check out WWW::HtmlUnit for another solution -- works pretty darn well I say :)]]>